Following the success of last years’ competitions the Poetry Book Society has again partnered with Mslexia (the magazine for women’s writing) to launch two major women’s poetry prizes for 2019. Both competitions are now open and close 5pm GMT 16th September 2019. The Women’s Poetry
Jewish Book Week, in conjunction with Beit Venezia, Venice is offering a unique opportunity for young Jewish European writers to work with a translator on translating a short piece of their work into English. We hope to give these young writers the opportunity to be introduced to a wider audience Su
The European Literature Network is delighted to be collaborating with Creative Multilingualism – a large-scale research project led by the University of Oxford, which studies the interconnection between linguistic diversity and creativity. In our new series of blogs entitled Lan
‘When I was in second grade, I found a piece of paper on my desk with the words, “You are a Jew”. I went home and asked: “Mum, what is a Jew?” She explained that people have different religions, Christians, Protestants and Jews in Czechoslovakia. I said: “And we are Jews?” The answer w
Early on in Andreï Makine’s latest novel, we recognise that we are going to be led into the heart of darkness by the use of a dual narrator and a framing device that are reminiscent of Joseph Conrad’s classic. Set in the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, an orphan boy follows a stranger
João Reis’ great success in The Translator’s Bride is to convince his audience that they are reading a work written at modernism’s mid-twentieth-century zenith. The stream-of-consciousness style, the focus on an individual’s relationship with the world, and, most importantly, the synthesis
